Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!IFI.UIO.NO!ingea From: ingea@IFI.UIO.NO (Inge Arnesen) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Coherent Message-ID: Date: 8 May 90 22:17:36 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 31 X-Unparsable-Date: Wed, 9 May 1990 0:17:39 MET DST >>Somebody else used Coherent to slam Minix, all I can say to this person >>is if you don't like it (Minix) then it will be nice NOT to have you >>cluttering up the bandwidth..! :) >Can we have some information on this? be nice to find out to what >degree code can be ported between them. E.g. if Coherent has a proper >version of awk we could throw away bawk. Well, Coherent is a UNIX compatible OS (well, that's what they all say :-) selling for $100 and is (from what I could deduct from the add) running in 286 protected mode. It's a rewrite and probably faster than the good old UNIX, but it's probably a lot buggier. It's got a development kit included, but as far as I know, it's *no source code*. Alas, I fail to see that it can be of much value to the MINIX community. If you really wan't a nice AWK, the GNU AWK is a good choice. I can never be an official part of MINIX (GNU licence), but like lot's of other GNU stuff, it will be around. As for PC MINIX, it will probably never have true clones of the extended AWK programs and YACC parsers until it gets out of the 64+64K limit. As it has been pointed out by many people, there is a split in the MINIX community between the people that want to use it as an educational tool and those who want a cheap UNIX OS with source. Maybe some of those will sacrifice the demand for source code and buy Coherent. Who knows ? Inge (BoB) { ingea@ifi.uio.no } ========================================================================= == Inge Arnesen, University of Oslo, Norway. == == ==